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Charlie Mas

@charliemas.bsky.social

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Husband, father, brother, uncle, grandfather, financial planner, scooterist, bowler, baseball fan, anime fan I am far more interested in what I don't know than what I do know.

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Charlie Mas @charliemas.bsky.social · 5h

Italy was not a unified country at that time. He would never have described himself as Italian.

Charlie Mas @charliemas.bsky.social · 5h

Maybe President Trump, who is clearly demented, should ask the Taino about Christopher Columbus' legacy.

Oh, that's right.

The Taino are all gone.

Oh, wait. That is Christopher Columbus' legacy: genocide.

Charlie Mas @charliemas.bsky.social · 5h

Neither of those celebrate victory in war.

The only public statuary about war that we do are memorials for the dead.

We do not celebrate or glorify war, not do we gloat over our victories; we only mourn our dead.

Charlie Mas @charliemas.bsky.social · 5h

We don't do this in America.
We don't glorify war and gloat over our victories.

War is terrible, and all of our war statuary are memorials to the dead because war is horrible and takes lives. It is noting to celebrate.

Charlie Mas @charliemas.bsky.social · 10h

Donald Trump has exactly one negotiation strategy, which is to make threats.

And he has only one negotiation tactic, which is to get what he bargained for and then refuse to pay and demand re-negotiation.

Charlie Mas @charliemas.bsky.social · 10h

There are no trade negotiations.

Why would anyone negotiate with Donald Trump? The man has never kept an agreement in his life.

Also, the longer the other nations wait, the more desperate the Trump administration will become, and the better the deal the other nations will be able to get.

Charlie Mas @charliemas.bsky.social · 13h

Not the first time for me.

Charlie Mas @charliemas.bsky.social · 23h

TP USA is producing an alternative Super Bowl halftime show.

They should get a White guy to sing Bad Bunny's songs in English.

Too bad Pat Boone isn't available.

abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/...

Turning Point USA announces counterprogram Super Bowl halftime show

Turning Point USA announced a counter-programming Super Bowl halftime show, set to air during Bad Bunny's official halftime performance.

Charlie Mas @charliemas.bsky.social · 1d

The denial that objective truth exists supports those who rely solely on narratives for their knowledge of the world and undermines those who rely on data and facts for their knowledge of the world.

Writers who rely on objective truth are journalists. Those who rely on narratives are propagandists.

Charlie Mas @charliemas.bsky.social · 1d

It's hard to believe that Tesla's earnings are going to spike hard enough to justify the 200 P/E when the corporation's earnings are falling.

All promises of future earnings need to be viewed in the context of the fact that Elon Musk has a long, unbroken history of unfulfilled promises.

Charlie Mas @charliemas.bsky.social · 1d

A party with a narrow majority should not get everything they want, even their most extreme policies, while the party with almost half of the seats gets nothing of what they want and has no power to moderate the majority's impulses.

Denying the voice of 47% just isn't democratic.

3/3

Charlie Mas @charliemas.bsky.social · 1d

The Congress should reach the majority votes necessary to pass legislation through negotiation and compromise.

The Senate filibuster works to assure that compromise.

The current GOP tactic of refusing to negotiate or compromise is contrary to the way this is supposed to work.

2/3

Charlie Mas @charliemas.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans have a majority in the House of Representatives 219 - 214 (once Rep. Grijalva is sworn in).

The situation in the Senate is just about the same: 53 Republicans, 45 Democrats plus 2.

So both houses are just about evenly divided and outcomes should reflect this nearly even division.

1/3

Charlie Mas @charliemas.bsky.social · 1d

As the majority party, the GOP has the duty to bring a bill that can pass. They aren't doing their job.

Worse, they refuse to negotiate with Democrats to get a bill that can pass. That's their choice. They are choosing shutdown over negotiation and compromise.

Their choice, their shutdown.

Charlie Mas @charliemas.bsky.social · 1d

The inflatable costume store is still open and doing business.

Charlie Mas @charliemas.bsky.social · 1d

President Trump, who is clearly demented, has lost all connection with the truth and reality.

My only question is whether he thinks up this nonsense for himself or if someone is feeding it to him.

Charlie Mas @charliemas.bsky.social · 1d

But none near me

Charlie Mas @charliemas.bsky.social · 1d

In theaters now!

Charlie Mas @charliemas.bsky.social · 1d

THERE'S A NEW DEATHSTALKER!!!

Does that mean that other people like watching vintage exploitation sword and sorcery schlock?

Charlie Mas @charliemas.bsky.social · 1d

Free baseball!

Only sad thing is that beer sales ended in the 7th.

Charlie Mas @charliemas.bsky.social · 1d

Every time the Trump administration says there isn't money for Americans in need, we will respond with "But there's $20 billion for Argentina"

Charlie Mas @charliemas.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know.

I was mocking the standard of proof you were expecting from an internet rando (me).

But you beat me with your presumption that I was being earnest.

Charlie Mas @charliemas.bsky.social · 1d

Ask the frog yourself if you need that standard of proof.

Charlie Mas @charliemas.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. There's video of the Portland frog getting shot with pepperballs and suffering no harm.

Charlie Mas @charliemas.bsky.social · 1d

Well, yeah. But among costumes that look ridiculous and ridicule, the inflatable ones have these advantages.